Sentences with phrase «neutral legal citation»

He proposed a universal citation style similar to the modern neutral legal citation, where opinions issuing from courts would have official sequential numbers, independent from any trademark or corporate name given by a private law report publisher.

Canada's pathbreaking vendor - neutral legal citation standard, and CanLII's innovative RefLex citator, are the topics of Ivan Mokanov's new post, entitled Environmentally - Friendly Citations, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.

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AustLII is doing just that with the Australasian Colonial Legal History Library: As cases are added to the Library, they are provided with a neutral citation.

in scanned PDF format, all freely available on AustLII, but also in developing a uniform and vendor - neutral system of legal citation for them.

Is it not misleading to students new to legal research who do not understand the limited utility and relative newness of the neutral citation?

Readers not familiar with legal research would have a fairly good chance of finding the case (or CanLII) through Googling and sophisticated researchers will know that they can use the neutral citation to find the case in multiple locations.

The Neutral Citation Standard for Case Law was developed in 1998 by the Canadian Citation Committee, an informal group that brought together various specialists in legal information from the judiciary, academia and the publishing industry, including slawers Martin Felsky and Daniel Poulin.

Personally I see that neutral citations have great potential if and when they come to be accepted by the legal profession as the primary means of identifying cases.

Other useful guides are the Canadian Judicial Council's Practice Direction on the Use of Neutral Citation for Case Law (2008) and Legal Research Materials: Legal Citation prepared by the William R. Lederman Law Library at Queen's University.

My real point, which I may not have expressed clearly, is that neutral citations represent less than 5 % of citations seen or used by legal researchers.

Louise Hamel, manager of the Judges» Library for Ontario Courts, just announced to Canadian legal publishers that beginning January 2, 2010, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice will assign a neutral citation to their decisions, except for the Small Claims Court.

As has worked in the past, when the neutral citation system for Canadian courts was created and adopted, and equally a uniform naming convention for Canadian judgments, I would suggest the work be entrusted to a core working group supported by an advisory board representative of all the affected communities: the Courts (and the Canadian Judicial Council), the law publishers both print and digital (especially CanLII and Lexum), legal writing and research faculty, law librarians and practising lawyers from both our French and English legal communities.